Listening Quotes

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.

Yannis Philippakis
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Serj Tankian System Of A Down
- World
- Music
- Listening

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

Patti Smith
- Work
- Morning
- Sleep
The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

James Gray
- Listening
- Magic
You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

Joe Wright
- Work
- Music
- Listening
An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels - from Millennials starting their careers... to women at the highest levels of leadership... to my own wife and daughter.

Pierre Nanterme
- Important
- Women
- Job
I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.

Ashley McBryde
- Up
- Experience
- Song
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

Coco Lee
- Up
- Music
- Listening